Evaluating websites
Evaluate all information found on the internet as anyone can publish on any topic.
- Author authority
- Web address (URL)
- Currency
Searching the web
Developed by Commoncraft and available from youtube
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Websites
Useful sites to start your search
- M/C: a journal of media and culture free online journal for Media
- ECHO: History of Science and Technology
- Encyclopedia Smithsonian - Science & Technology
- Internet History of Science Sourcebook - Fulltext access to primary and secondary sources
- PLoS - nonprofit organization of scientists making scientific material a freely available public resource
- Science and technology - Trinity University, portal to STS internet sites and scientific journals
- STS LINKS North Carolina Program on Science, Technology & Society
UOW sites
- Faculty of Arts - Science, Technology & Society (STS)
What's the difference?
| Library databases | |
| University focus | Useful results hidden in a jungle |
| Target journal articles | Everything and anything! |
| Better results in less pages | Results in 1000s of pages |
| Fulltext scholarly articles |
May need to pay for scholarly articles $$$ |
| Refines your search by subject area, date and lots more! | Fewer limits available |
| UOW quota free | Runs down your quota |
Google scholar
(search results open in a new window)
Beyond Google
Scirus - scientific search engine
Directories organise Internet resources by subject. The information provided in directories is created, arranged and maintained by people rather than machines.
- Librarians; Index to the Internet: Technology
- Voice of the Shuttle: Science, Technology & Culture
- Yahoo! Science, Technology and Society Studies
Other search engines and directories
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